Joseph wethekill



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

JOSEPH YVETHERILL, OF MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT.

QUILTING-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 23,631, dated .April 12, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosErH VETHERILL, of Manchester, county of Hartford,and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Quilt- Frames; and I do hereby declare that the same isdescribed and represented in the following specification and drawings,and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement Iwill proceed to describe the construction and operation, referring tothe drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each ofthe figures.

In the accompanying drawings is shown in one view, the manner of itsconstruction and the mode of operation.

A, is the frame.

B, is the girt which holds the frame together.

C, D, E, are the winding rolls, which may be secured to the frame byhaving the tenen, etc. pass through and a pin inserted, or by having agroove. a short distance from the shoulder, and a key inserted so as tostrike into the groove through the frame, thus allowing the rolls toturn freely and still be held in place.

E are arms secured at one side of the frame and nearly in a line of thecenter of the roll c, extending' to the opposite side to receive theends of the roll E.

Gr, are pawls, or button fastenings, which catch into the notches H, tohold or prevent the rolls from turning.

The upper lining I, is first wound up around the roll E. The lowerlining J, is wound up around the 4roll D. Then the two edges are broughttogether and secured to the roll C. The two rolls E, D, are then turnedup taut as desirable. The roll E may be lifted and the wedding arrangedin the desired order from time to time during the progress of thequilting and the roll dropped back to its place, and is now ready forquilting, which may now progress over the surface between the rolls C,E. Vhen accomplished the rolls E, D, may be relaxed and that portionwhich is quilted may be wound up on the roll C, and the rolls E, D,again tightened, and the wadding arranged as before, and the quiltingagain progress, and continue in the same manner until completed.

The advantage thus derived over others now in use are, much less room isoccupied. The wadding can be more easily and satisfactorily arranged,and the quilting more easily performed, and at the same time can beeasily taken down and packed in small compass for laying away.

I believe I have thus fully set forth my improvement, in itsconstruction and operation.` The nature, and utility, of the invention Ithink cannot fail to be fully and clearly understood therefrom.

I claim- T he employment of the rolls C, D, E, in combination with thearms F pawls G, notches H, so that the upper roll E may be lifted whendesired, arranged in the manner as and for the purpose described.

JOSEPH VETHERILL.

Titnesses S. J. IVILDER, JEREMY IV. BLIss.

